Q. Recently I have noticed numerous piles of soil in my backyard. They are roughly the size of a small dinner plate. What’s going on? A. What you are seeing are the first signs of mole activity. Moles ...

That’s the conclusion of the first scientific study of the old art called worm grunting. In the southeastern United States, bait collectors hunt earthworms by rubbing a piece of iron across a stake in ...

Vanderbilt biologist Ken Catania has discovered the secret of "worm grunting" -- the Florida practice of driving a wooden stake into the ground and rubbing it with a long piece of steel to produce a ...

TATE'S HELL | Gary Revell gets up every morning before sunrise, heads into the woods and grunts. Not because it's so early. It's the term for coaxing worms from the ground by the hundreds to be ...

Moles are always a hot topic in the Lowcountry. I try to write about them only once a year. I still recommend a three-prong approach when controlling moles for the less adventurous people who do not ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- March is barely in the rearview mirror, but it already may be too late to get the upper hand on turf-marring crabgrass. They’re already having a field day. This isn’t an April Fool ...

The wails of woe never stop. In fact, almost daily I hear from readers, neighbors and friends complaining about moles and voles in their yards. You can take comfort knowing you’re not alone. About 50 ...

As Charles Darwin had suspected, earthworms that flee from ground vibrations do so to escape hungry moles—even though sometimes it is humans chasing them If you happen to be hiking in the right part ...

When biologist Ken Catania heard about the peculiar practice of worm grunting practiced in the Apalachicola National Forest in the Florida Panhandle one of his first thoughts was an observation made ...